On one side of the grassy plains there was the man known famously around the world as the copycat ninja. That man's real name though was none other than Kakashi Hatake, the son of the White Fang, a Konoha shinobi that was said to be able to rival the Sannin when they were in combat.

Down the road that was Kakashi's life, when the silver haired kid at the time became Jonin at age thirteen, which by the way was the youngest age that someone had ever earned the promotion to the rank of Jonin in Konoha. It was at this time that Kakashi got his first mission in charge.

Unfortunately the mission didn't go well due to a myriad of reasons and it scarred Kakashi Hatake for life. When his sensei had come to rescue Kakashi and Rin, one of the enemies managed to escape the future Yondaime Hokage. Aforementioned person bragged about being one of the only people to escape Minato Namikaze and thus entered the Konoha Bingo Book.

For Kakashi, this battle just got personal and he was going to everything that was in his power to avenge his fallen friend / comrade and teammate by killing Kakko of Iwa. It would allow the silver haired man a small bit of closure for what happened that fateful day.

As he hadn't had a good fight in a long time, it was Kakko who was the one to take initiative. "Well Kakashi-san, how about we go further into the woods so that we can give our battle the fight that it truly deserves." The brown haired man questioned to the silver haired man.

It was a catch 22 for Kakashi. Whilst he did want to separate Kakko from his genin so that so there was no repeat of a hostage situation, he knew absolutely nothing about the chunin and whether or not his team could cope with him. In the end, he decided that he simply had to put faith into his students and hope for the best. With both of them nodding, the two of them took off to the right in which they would have their rematch.

With team 7

"Hahaha! Go along little kiddies, I'll let you use this time so that you can form a plan. Come on, show me all of that teamwork that you Konoha scum pride yourselves on." The man with only one sleeve boasted.

With the free invitation given to them, Sasuke took the time to once again take action and give the team a plan. "Look guys, he's so egotistical, it's something that we can use to our advantage. Naruto you run in only by yourself and me and Sakura will throw kunai's at him.

They will sail past your head and by the time they reach the guy, I want you to use your Ninpou: Kage Bunshin (Ninja Arts: Shadow Clone Jutsu) and then we will just use the same plan from before, got it?" Sasuke said, clearly taking leadership over the team. Naruto and Sakura didn't have any issues as they couldn't think of a better plan given the time frame. Not once during his speech about the enemy being egotistical did Sasuke notice the irony in what was coming out of his mouth.

"Alright, go Naruto, we'll cover you with kunai." Sasuke commanded to which Naruto nodded and charged in at the chunin from Iwa.

Said chunin from the land of earth was curious as to what the genin managed to come up with in such a short amount of time. Whatever it was, it was not as if the kids had a chance to beat him, he was a chunin after all and they were fresh genin judging by the look of Naruto's clothes.

When Naruto got within what would be a spot where, had he had a large sword in his hand then he could swing it at his enemy, his mind came up with a slight addition to Sasuke's plan.

Putting extra amounts of chakra into the technique, Naruto made a large plume of smoke appear as he used the jutsu that he was most comfortable with. This intended distraction certainly caught the eyes of the Iwa chunin.

Being caught off guard by the smoke being caused by the jutsu, Junta did not know what was going to come next. That was why he prepared himself for the worst. It was something that was just ingrained into him from his shinobi training in Iwagakure.

Since Sasuke had thrown the kunai with such force, it didn't matter than Naruto had made some clones for the bladed metal to go through. As the flying death devices sailed through the cloud of smoke, they killed a couple of clones in the process and went en route to hit their original target. Sakura's kunai sadly did not have the muscle behind them like Sasuke's and as such stopped when they hit one of Naruto's clones.

In the mind of Naruto, the smokescreen and the loss of a few clones was all worthy as long as all of team 7 got out of this encounter with their lives and no permanent injuries.

Piercing Naruto's clone, the two kunai that Sasuke threw at his first real enemy in his first real battle went on to score successive hits on the Iwa chunin. The first one caused a shallow cut onto his left hip. Because of the way that the chunin was standing, his hip was further to Sasuke's left then what his thigh muscle was. That was why the second kunai that he had thrown easily did more damage to the man than the first one.

Sticking painfully into the thigh muscle of the Iwa chunin, Sasuke was smirking as he saw that he damage he had caused was enough for Naruto to get three clones to jump on him and hold onto a limb with the only free one being the man's left arm.

While the clones of Naruto were holding onto each of the limbs as if it was like a dog humping somebody's leg, Naruto had moved his body around so that the knee of each of his clones was resting on the limb that they were holding onto to.

In a split second after Naruto's clones had gotten into position, they immediately went to work doing their part in the plan that Sasuke had set out for the team. That was to make it so that it would be easier for Sasuke to hit the guy with his Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Grand Fireball Jutsu.) The way how they did that was by repeatedly jamming their kneecaps into the side of the limbs that they were holding onto. Each of the clones managed to get 2 hits on the limb before they were destroyed.

"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Grand Fireball Jutsu)" Sasuke called out as he placed his hands into the tiger sign and brought the two offending appendages to his mouth so that he could blow out fire from his mouth.

Racing towards it intended target in an uncontrolled manner, the chunin from the land of earth groaned with the added weight onto his right, and preferably his dominant hand and moved it along with the other hand to perform one of his own Jutsu so that he could escape the incoming uncontrolled fireball.

"Doton: Shinju Zanshu (Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation no Jutsu)" The black haired chunin said out loud as he dug into the ground to escape the oncoming blast that left only the clones to take the full force of the C-ranked Jutsu from Sasuke.

Hearing the name of the jutsu that the man called out, Sasuke remembered exactly where he had heard it before. "Guys" Sasuke said getting the attention of Sakura and Naruto as they tried to find out where the man had gone to.

"This was the Jutsu that Kakashi used on me when we had our genin test." Sasuke said as knew what was going on. "Our enemy is underground and is going to pull at least one of us underground. The reason he does this is that so he can target the other two while he makes the one he took down watch on helplessly since there's nothing that they can do." Sasuke announced to his team who sent him grateful looks and nodded as they shifted their attention to the ground to see when and where their enemy would pop up.

Hearing what the black haired kid had said when he was underground made the chunin curse under his breath and started to think up a new plan. Curse those brats; they actually made a good strategy that caused me to suffer an injury. And wait… what's this? They actually know what jutsu I'm using at the moment, Grrr, guess I have to turn this up a notch. I never would have expected some fresh out of the academy gaki's to be this good.

Hearing what the black haired boy had just stated, Junta came to the conclusion that it was Sasuke who was in charge out of the three. Deciding on how he was going to attack the three twelve year old kids, the Iwa chunin made his move with his target being one raven haired boy Sasuke Uchiha. The theory was that if he cut off the head, the limbs would cease to move cohesively.

As soon as he saw a hand pop out of the ground, the Uchiha clan heir quickly moved his right foot so that the man could not get a hold of the appendage and drag him under ground.

What Sasuke did not realise was that this was only a distraction for the real part of the Iwagakure ninja's plan. The real part of his attack was to the left leg of Sasuke. Shooting out of the ground at relatively fast pace, the right hand of the Iwa chunin emerged out of the ground and went after the ankle of Konoha's last hope in reviving the Uchiha clan.

Thankfully for Sasuke, his left leg was still out in the open and had it in the air so no one could get a hold of it. Seeing the arm that was trying to attack his leg, Sasuke saw this as an opportunity for him to hopefully divert the man underneath him away from the grip that he had on his right leg. With the left foot that Sasuke lifted up just recently, he slammed it on the hand holding his right leg repeatedly. Had Junta not released his arm, he knew for certain that his arm would have been broken thanks to the force of Sasuke's kicks.

Damn that kid... if only he hadn't had any experience in having the technique used on him then it would have made it much easier! I guess that since Kakko-sempai could be having trouble with Kakashi, I better finish these kids off so that I can go and quickly help him defeat Kakashi. The Iwa chunin thought to himself as he wanted to get into the good books of Kakko. The sole reason behind this was so that the man would vouch for him when it came to his chances of gaining his Jonin promotion.

Thinking of the possible ways that he could win the match, the Iwa chunin had decided the best way was to use his most powerful jutsu. It came as no coincidence that this jutsu was one that he had just created before coming on this mission. Having Just finished creating his own jutsu; Junta decided that he wanted to test it out in battle. With their being no better opponents than fresh out of the academy genin who had no idea as to what was going on, the black haired man unleashed his attack on Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke.

Casting his jutsu, the chunin from the land of earth silently made the earth around him turn into mud and form into the shape that he wanted to about five metres behind team 7. This was all the while still staying underground as it was needed for the jutsu.

To complete the jutsu that he was making, the black haired individual slowly rose up from the ground as he let the mud consume layers on top of his body. As he was doing this, he made sure to include little pocket holes inside the mud so that air could get in and out, allowing him to breathe inside his own creation.

Finally once the jutsu was done, the Iwa chunin fired off what would be the first bullet made out of earth at Sasuke. Confident that none of the genin would be able to hear the hardened clump of mud that was sailing through the air, junta waited so that he could do some gloating. It was fun toying with the emotions of Konohagakure genin after all.

This would be his downfall as he didn't take the chance to press his advantage. It was this that would give them the time to regroup and think up a new plan.

Sadly for the green eyed chunin from Iwa, there was indeed one genin that did heard the attack sail through the air. If there was one good thing that came from the severe paranoia that Naruto had as a child, it was that he had heightened senses to hopefully prevent an incoming attack.

Acting on instinct, the blonde haired member of the Uzumaki clan turned around and was shocked at what he saw. For there, going in the direction at where his only male friend was standing, was a football sized sphere of mud. Naruto knew that it would cause serious damage to Sasuke if he didn't do anything about it real soon.

That was why Naruto, who had no sense of cowardice dived in the direction of the last loyal Uchiha to Konoha and pushed him out of the way. Unlike many other genin, Naruto did the courageous thing that many other genin and even chunin wouldn't do.

Though with everything in life, not everything can go the way that you want it and it was no different with Naruto pushing Sasuke aside. With the way Naruto jumped side on, it meant that his body was in the line of fire. Unfortunately for the blonde haired Uzumaki, he did not pull of the heroic deed without sustaining a mobility crippling injury.

Naruto got hit in the right ankle which lucky for him was not his dominant leg. Hearing the loud cry of agony just after he had been pushed aside, Sasuke turned around to see something that looked all too familiar to him. That was the feeling of helplessness and the emotion coming on VERY strong. There in front of him was Naruto, the only person his age he had formed a bond of remote friendship with out of all of the people in the academy. He was the only other kid around his own age that knew that pain of being truly and utterly alone.

Unconsciously channelling chakra into his eyes, Sasuke felt the familiar feelings of rage, anger and utter helplessness. This was due to the fact that these were the exact same emotions he felt when he had to watch his clan, his family, his mother and father get brutally murdered at the hands of his elder brother: the person who he idolized the most.

That was the activation of his clan's prized Kekkai genkai, the sharingan. With one tomoe in each eye, Sasuke took command of the situation and started feeding off of the adrenaline that was being fed by his anger.

"Sakura!" Sasuke shouted at Sakura as she was too shocked at seeing the damage that Naruto had suffered when he took the hit for Sasuke. Thankfully for Sasuke this was enough to bring the pink haired girl out of stunned stupor and got her focusing on her now red eyed teammate.

"Take Naruto into the tree line so that we can think of a plan to hopefully win this without any more injuries while we stall some time for Kakashi-sensei to come in an help. While you're doing this I will buy you some time. Got it?" Even as Sasuke said the word help, he had said it with disdain but he was not going to put his own ego over other people that were close to getting hurt or possibly worse, killed. Not especially after the fact that said injured person had been the one to save him. He had already gone through a lot of emotional pain when that had happened before and he certainly did not want to have it happen again.

Nodding dumbly at the commanding aura that her crush had taken on when he spoke to her. In her humble opinion, Sakura thought the Sasuke was hot as hell when he commanded her. The inner tsundere was coming out.

Sakura picked up Naruto as best she could so that she wouldn't injure his right ankle anymore. At the present moment, she could tell it was broken just by looking at it.

Turning around to where the mud had been shot at, Sasuke saw the person responsible for Naruto having to cover his arse. In the mind of Sasuke, the raven haired Uchiha was not seeing Junta in front of him, instead he was seeing an Itachi shaped Junta which. This was the cause of untold psychological damage inflicted onto him as a kid.

Right in front of him was mud shaped animal that was at least 3.5 metres long and that was about one metre wide in circumference at the base. As the structure rose from the ground, it slowly got thinner.

That was just the basic design of what he was seeing, the more detailed version would also include how it the mud was shaped and moulded into a dragon. Just to make Sasuke even angrier, in its mouth, was another one of the balls of mud that Naruto got hit with.

"Hahaha, look at my greatest technique that I will now be testing on its first victims. Don't even think about trying to win because this jutsu is so awesome that no one can defeat it." Although the man was wrong in the statement, it did not make Sasuke feel any less nervous.

"Isn't it such a wonderful Jutsu, I call my pride and joy the Doton: Dai Doryudan no Jutsu (Earth Release: Great Mud Dragon Bullet Jutsu.) I call it this because I combined two jutsus into one jutsu that is even better than the two jutsus combined. I combined the Doton: Doryudan no Jutsu (Earth Release: Mud Dragon Bullet Jutsu) with the Doton: Dosenkiryu (Earth Release: Earth and Stone Dragon Jutsu) and you get to be the first person to see what it does other than me." The chunin from Iwa proudly boasted as he had been waiting for this moment for quite a while.

Having heard enough from the man that caused Naruto to have a broken leg, Sasuke launched himself at a speed that was even faster than what Naruto had used before.

With the aid of his newly activated Dojutsu and the adrenaline pumping in his body, the raven haired, red eyed boy easily dodged the multiple shots of mud being fired at him thanks to his better vision.

Since Sasuke was running on pure adrenaline and instinct alone, it meant that he wasn't that creative when it came to thinking of ways to take down the giant mud dragon. That was why if either Kakashi or Kakko were to witness what was going on, they would find Sasuke standing at the base of the earthen dragon delivering punches and kicks as fast and as hard as he could, all the while dodging the mud bullets being fired off at him.

After a minute of nothing happening to the towering flexible statue of mud that was firing bullets at Sasuke, the raven haired Uchiha clan heir changed his style of attack when he heard the taunting voice of the brown haired chunin that was covered in chakra enhanced mud.

"Hahaha! Mere punches won't be able to break my jutsu; the mud will just absorb the power behind them into the ground. Kid you better try something knew or otherwise I'll end this soon." The chunin from Iwa said which only spurred Sasuke on even further.

Taking out a two kunai with the intent of using each one in each hand, Sasuke started slashing wildly in the hopes of cutting down the mud dragon. Realising what the kid was trying to do, the green eyed man took the battle a little bit more seriously as over time; the kid would be able to severely weaken his jutsu.

Getting fired at by an even larger volley of chakra powered mud bullets; Sasuke did not have the speed to dodge all of the blasts. That was why when he was hit in his right outer bicep he dropped his kunai onto the ground.

Normally Sasuke would have gone to pick a new kunai from out of his pouch and start attacking again, but seeing the little amount of damage that he had been able to cause with the kunai's and settled with trying to figure out a new way to defeat his opponent.

It was then that the boy from the clan known for their heavy use of fire ninjutsu remembered that he did indeed know a fire jutsu that he could use. Jumping back so that he could put some much needed distance between the two, Sasuke started the hand seals for an Uchiha clan famous jutsu.

Knowing what the boy wanted to do, he shot off a few mud bullets off in quick succession to stop Sasuke from completing the hand sequence and bringing his hands up to his mouth so that he couldn't use the fire Jutsu.

Cursing as he had to break the hand signs as well as his concentration so that he could dodge the incoming attack, it was at this moment that the boy's red eyes noticed something that gave him a new strategy in mind.

Sasuke quickly formed a plan in his mind and did his best to execute it. Running in circles around the dragon made out of chakra enhanced mud, Sasuke's intentions was for it to twist up and give him a good chance at landing the jutsu on the Iwa Chunin.

After one minute of constantly running around, Sasuke thought that now would be the right time to use his jutsu. Starting the hand signs, Sasuke was able to get into position with his hands at his mouth. Calling out the name of the jutsu, Sasuke laid a volley of one large fireball aimed directly at the base of where the Doton: Dai Doryudan no Jutsu (Earth Release: Great Mud Dragon Jutsu) resided.

This time the jutsu hit the side of the mud dragon because at the last second the black haired, green eyed Iwa chunin managed to just move the majority of his dragon out of the way to escape the incoming fireball. Some of the fire that Sasuke had bellowed out connected with the upper left part of the twisted dragon and it took some damage.

Hearing the beyond angry expression coming from the mouth of the Iwa chunin that raged on about how he was stupid he Sasuke just realised, he might have just bitten off a bit more than he could chew.

With that in mind, Sasuke hurriedly headed away into the forest from where he open plain that he was standing in. The intention was to give him some time to think up a new strategy as the previous ones obviously didn't work out all that well.

When he hopped past the first few trees, something caught the eyes of the last loyal Uchiha to Konoha. That was the sight of not only the pink jacket that Sakura had been wearing earlier that day but also the pink hair that was also unmistakably Sakura's.

Fuming internally, Sasuke spoke up. "What the hell are you doing? You're supposed to be much further ahead than this. The point of the of me making the distraction was to get you further ahead so that you could get some help to finish this off but also so that you can get someone to fix Naruto's leg." Sasuke seethed because he did not want to be reminded of how Naruto got injured.

Visibly deflating because it was her crush that was speaking to her in that way, Sakura wondered whether she made the right decision concerning the team. It was then that she remembered that this team was her home away from home considering all of the fights going on between her parents about the divorce, her team was her indirect family and she wanted them to stay as close as possible.

Growing a spine for once when it concerned her crush on near obsessive proportions, Sakura actually spoke back at Sasuke. "The first lesson that Kakashi-sensei taught us all Sasuke-kun was that in the ninja world, those who break the rules are trash, that's true, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash. Just because you wanted to do the heroic thing, it doesn't mean that you're not part of the team. Here's a new saying that team 7 is going to abide by from now on. 'One for all and all for one!'" the pink haired girl shouted at Sasuke who was stunned from actually having one of his biggest fan girls talk back at him in such a manner.

Naruto for his part was just as shocked as he had been the third wheel during the conversation and it was then that he had a brilliant plan to take down that blasted dragon made out mud.

Speaking for the first time since he had suffered the injury that was not a howl of pain coming from his lower right limb, Naruto got the attention of both of his teammates. Naruto used the makeshift crutch that Sakura had built from four sticks and some ninja wire so that he could stand… barely and then started speaking to his two other teammates.

Hearing the grunting that Naruto was going through as he got up which showed Sakura and Sasuke how much pain Naruto was feeling from his broken ankle.

"I've got a plan so that we can beat this guy. Sasuke, how much chakra do you have and how many of those fireballs can that make?" Naruto, who was standing via the aid of the crutch that Sakura had just recently made.

It only took just a few seconds for the sharingan wielder to reply with the answer of two which gave Naruto another question that he needed to ask. "Would it be possible for you to instead of making two fireballs and make one really large one without it blowing up in our faces when I stand beside you?" Naruto asked once again to which Sasuke nodded, confident in his abilities with fire manipulation.

"Now I need something more for my plan to work out, Sakura" Naruto questioned which brought the girls gaze to him as he asked her a question. "Sakura, do you have anything other than the standard kunai, shuriken and the ninja wire that you used to use this make this crutch?" Naruto asked his former pink haired crush.

Nodding, Sakura produced a kunai, though it was not just a standard kunai, no this was one of the special explosion kunai that her parents had bought her for a graduation present in case she ever needed it.

Unlike the other kunai, these were made out of a special chakra conducting material which allowed for better placement of seals onto the kunai thus increasing said seal's effectiveness. Along with that, Jiraiya had also placed stronger explosion seals on them to give them a bit more oomph.

To offset the much more enemy friendly kunai to the shinobi on the battlefield, the kunai had to be sold at a premium price. All in all, it was lucky and rare for a genin, let alone a freshly minted genin to get their hands on one.

"Yeah, this is a special explosion kunai" Sakura said to which both Naruto and Sasuke looked on with newfound interest because they both knew that this kunai was more power packed than the regular kunai that explosions seals on them.

As soon as Naruto recognized what Sakura had in her hand he grinned because it was exactly what he needed when it came to his brilliant plan. With a smile on his face, Naruto addressed both Sasuke and Sakura. "That's great Sakura! That'd be perfect for what I've got planned." Naruto had a slight pause in his speech before he started continuing to talk about his plan as he was in a hurry because of the Iwa chunin.

"The day that we found out about us going on a mission, as soon as we went our separate ways, I went straight to the library to hopefully learn a new jutsu. I did just that." At this point Sasuke was livid because he had spent so much time just learning his fire release and that took ages for him to learn. He would question Naruto about that later and find out how he learnt it so quickly. This was because he wanted to put whatever knowledge Naruto had gained, into his own training methods.

"I learnt a wind release jutsu that is quite powerful on its own although it's nowhere near as powerful when it is combined with fire." At this point both Sasuke and Sakura looked at Naruto and knowing where he was going with this plan. Naruto wanted for all three of them to combine their attacks at the giant mud dragon.

It was then that the pink haired genin had a question in her mind that needed to be answered before they could take down their target. "Wait, Naruto how are you going to be able to use your jutsu, you can hardly move." Sakura asked with concern as her perception of Naruto had changed throughout this ordeal when she saw what he did for her Sasuke-kun; she was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt as long as he did not ask her out on dates anymore.

Dismissing the concern that Sakura had for him, he did his best to reassure her that he was alright so that the team could focus on the mission. "Don't worry Sakura-chan, I'm running on pure adrenaline at the moment so I can't feel that much pain from it, though when we stop battling, it will hurt quite a lot." Naruto said which made the insecurities that Sakura was feeling go down to a minimum for the moment.

With getting help from both Sakura and Sasuke, Naruto managed to get to the grassy plains. This was only to find a mentally deranged Iwa chunin who was not at all happy for having his prized creation so humiliatingly ruined by a mere academy graduate.

With a nod to one another, all of team 7 started to prepare their respective attacks with Naruto leaning on Sasuke for balance.

"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Jutsu), Fuuton: Fudangan no Jutsu (Wind Release: Air Bullet Jutsu)" Both Sasuke and Naruto called out their respective jutsus as all of team seven watched on in awe at the combined large fireball that was going towards the enemy.

The new and improved fire ball was almost triple the size of one that Sasuke could make by himself. He definitely had to learn that jutsu from Naruto so he could do that on his own.

From afar, to the right, Sakura knew her part and was a little overwhelmed by the combined fireball of Naruto and Sasuke had just made. This was why she was a little slow when it came to doing her part but she nonetheless did it and did it well.

Throwing the special kunai perpendicularly to the line that the combined fireball that Naruto and Sasuke had produced, Sakura waited for the kunai to sail through the air and reach its intended destination which was inside the middle of the middle of the fireball. The point to this was that because of the special kunai and the way how it exploded, she wanted to get all of the metal fragments to go the way of the chunin and not Naruto and Sasuke-kun. That was the good thing about this kunai was that since the seal was engraved into the metal and not on some piece of paper, it meant that the seal could travel into the fire without worry. A normal explosion seal would not have the same luck as it would be consumed by the fire and fizzle out.

Using the superior control over her chakra compared to her two teammates, Sakura used the ram hand sign and channelled some chakra so that the kunai could do what it was intended to do. It was then that inside the giant fireball exploded into an even bigger mass of heat and flames thanks to the explosion seal that was triggered by Sakura.

BOOM! All of team 7 heard as they watched on with fascination at how the fireball engulfed the mud dragon and tore it two pieces. It was then that the genin team being led by Kakashi heard the horrific screams coming from inside the fire. What this did, was that it made them hope that the man inside wasn't going to make it out alive.

Sadly for them, that was not the case because when Sakura had turned her back to the man, just so that she could walk over to her team and celebrate with them, an insane, naked to the highest degree chunin from Iwa came out of the mud with the intent of killing her.

Knowing that only he and Sasuke were the ones to see this and the fact that Sasuke had run out of all of his chakra to use in battle which left it up to Naruto to save the day once again.

Since his hands were still in the final hand seal of his last jutsu, all it left Naruto to do was to inhale some air and channel the necessary chakra to use the jutsu. In fact, it was this little amount of time that Naruto needed to make the jutsu work that saved Sakura's life.

Calling it out once again, Naruto used his jutsu as he managed to time it perfectly when the air bullet came out of Naruto's mouth at just the right time so that the concentrated blast of air managed to collide with the ribs of the Iwa chunin which sent him flying to into the ground.

Hearing the noises coming from Junta, it told Naruto that his jutsu had managed to cause some internal damage. Despite the damage that Naruto had caused to him, the green eyed Iwa chunin managed to get up to attack Sakura once again. She was still in shock from seeing an adult man who was naked charging at her.

This time though, he knew to expect Naruto using a wind ninjutsu at him. It meant that he was now looking at Naruto to see whether or not he would fire another one of the attacks.

That was exactly the case in that Naruto sent another one of the Fudangan no Jutsu (Wind Release: Air Bullet Jutsu) and had it aimed directly at the Iwa chunin.

Sadly for all of those who supported for Sakura not getting hurt, Naruto's jutsu did not make contact with the man. The chunin who was but naked managed to dodge the attack and was now running with a deranged look on his face at Sakura with a kunai in hand with the intent to slice her throat.

It was horrific for Sasuke and Naruto as there was nothing that they could do since they were too far away and the chunin was too close to Sakura, they could only hope that this was something that did not separate the team.

Closing her eyes because she feared for her life, Sakura waited for the inevitable blow that meant that she would never be able to see the face of her crush, one Sasuke Uchiha. When the blow didn't come and instead of the blow, there was a really loud crackling sound coming from in front of her, the pink haired girl managed to squint and open one eye and was shocked at what she saw in front of her.

There, in front of her was the chunin from Iwa was standing there, but naked in front of her. What was different though was that he was not moving, unless you counted the massive cough of blood that landed on her dress.

"EWW!" Sakura screamed as she looked down at the two globs of blood that were on the front of her dress. This made her turn around as she was thoroughly grossed out at what had just happened to her.

Thanking the squirt of blood that had made Sakura turn around, the Jonin-sensei of team 7 used this as the ideal time to dump the body onto the ground and quickly use one of his many Doton jutsus to bury the body so that none of his students would have to see the brutal way in which he ended the chunin from Iwa's life.

"I told you Sakura that I wouldn't let anyone hurt you so you don't have to worry about anything like that happening again." Kakashi said as looked around to see what type of condition the rest of his team was in.

It was then that he noticed that Naruto, said boy was leaning quite heavily on a makeshift crutch, immediately the silver haired Jonin worried about something serious happening to his sensei's son. That thought though was cancelled when Kakashi noticed that there was not one spec of blood coming from him. It was this that allowed Kakashi to breathe a sigh of relief as he then turned his attention to his final student.

There was the Uchiha, the other last living reminder to the past that was so painful for him. Seeing that the raven haired boy had his sharingan activated with a tomoe in each my made Kakashi proud that his student had unlocked a piece of his heritage. Seeing that there were no serious injuries to him made Kakashi relieved that even though the mission went slightly pear shaped. The team all managed to pull together and make it through the ordeal.

Calling the two boys over, Kakashi watched as both of them hobbled over to him so that he could inspect them and have a look at their injuries.

Seeing at how little weight Naruto put onto his right leg, told Kakashi that something remotely serious must've happened to it. This meant that Naruto would be the first person to get the quick medical once over.

"Naruto, I need you to pull up your pant leg or do you want me to do it? I need to see what injury you have suffered and whether or not I can give you a temporary fix until we get to the Kusagakure." Kakashi told Naruto to which the blonde haired boy nodded, dropped the crutch and resorted to leaning on Sasuke, much to the boy's displeasure and rolled up his right pant leg.

Just from the quick look that Kakashi had of Naruto's leg, he could see that Naruto had his ankle broken. Thankfully it was a clean snap and only had one break in it. This meant that it was the lowest grade of broken ankles that there was.

It was thanks to having a medical ninja as his teammate that allowed the silver haired Jonin to know what he was supposed to do in this situation. It was then that Kakashi started channelling some lightning chakra into his hand, enough so that his hand had blue sparks coming off of it.

Freaking out at what his sensei was doing, Naruto started getting nervous, so much so that he started back pedalling as best as he could to get away from the crazed man who had blue lightning coming off the tips off of his fingers.

With his hold on Naruto's knee, Kakashi stopped Naruto from moving, and spoke up to stop what feelings of anxiety that Naruto was feeling. "Just trust me Naruto. This will only hurt for a little bit but after that it will be temporarily fixed until we get to a hospital so they can give you proper treatment for your broken ankle." Kakashi said to which Naruto slowly nodded.

Despite not having that much respect for the man since he was constantly 3 hours late to every team meeting that they had had, Naruto still had respect for the man because he had been able to become a Jonin.

Trusting his sensei, Naruto had one more question before he allowed his sensei to do whatever it was he was going to do. "Hey Kakashi-sensei, what is it that you are going to do to my leg to make it better?" Naruto curiously questioned to his sensei. Kakashi smiled under his mask for he was remembering his own childhood curiosity at that moment.

Dispelling the reminiscing thoughts, the silver haired Jonin started explaining to his student what it was he was going to do. "Well I'm going to hit your nervous system from here down" to which at this moment Kakashi touched a couple of points just below where Naruto's knee ended in a circle around his leg.

"This will cause the parts of your leg that send messages to your brain to be temporarily disabled. This means that you won't feel any pain and you won't be able to move it causing any more damage to occur to your ankle." Kakashi said to his student who was injured.

The explanation that Kakashi had given to his student was one that had drawn the attention of Sasuke and Sakura. They wanted to see what their sensei was going to do. Hearing what exactly he was going to do, the two started to stare intently at Naruto's leg as they wanted to see something so useful in the hopes of learning it themselves. They hoped though that they would never have to use it though.

With that said, Kakashi gave Sakura one last order before he did what he had to do to Naruto. "Sakura, I need you to hold Naruto's thigh so that it won't move around and mess this up." the sharingan warrior ordered to which the green eyed girl begrudgingly accepted the task.

"Don't think that me putting my hands on your body means that you have any more of a chance of getting with me Naruto…" Sakura trailed off in a warning tone to remind Naruto that she didn't want him to get the wrong idea. Naruto however did not even bother to comment because he was starting to feel the pain of having the adrenaline from before wear off and now he was left to deal with the pain of his broken ankle all on his own.

5 minutes later and a few agonizing screams coming from the only blonde haired boy in the area meant that Naruto's broken ankle was finally on the path to getting better. It was then that Kakashi decided to tell his raven haired student that he had just activated his sharingan. "Just to let you know Sasuke" Kakashi said as he gained the attention of the rookie of the year. "You just unlocked your sharingan and you've got one tomoe in each eye." Kakashi said to which the raven haired Uchiha fainted with a smile on his face.

Having left holding Naruto's leg, the pink haired girl raced over her crush to see what was wrong with him until she got caught up seeing the smile on his face, one that she had never seen before, sure she had seen him smirk a lot of times but this smile meant that he was truly happy for the first time and reminded her as to why she fell so hard for him in the first place.

It was then that she knew that her sensei had healed Naruto so that meant he would be able to heal her precious Sasuke. "Kakashi-sensei what happened to Sasuke? He just fell onto the ground!" The girl hysterically said to which Kakashi had a good idea but wanted to make sure. Placing his hand over the navel of Sasuke, the silver haired Jonin used the only medical jutsu that he learnt from Rin. That was the diagnostic jutsu.

Eventually, Kakashi took his hand off Sasuke's body when he had made his diagnosis. "Don't worry Sakura, all Sasuke has is chakra exhaustion. All he needs is a good sleep and in the morning he will need to eat a lot of food and after that he will be back to normal." Kakashi said to Sakura who immediately breathed a sigh of relief as none of the injuries that her team had acquired were permanent.

Team 7 had just completed the hardest part of its first mission and both Naruto and Sakura, along with the sleeping Sasuke could be proud of that fact.